girth being in use. An old custom I have noticed here is the carrying of various small birds about on a stick or perch. They are fastened to the sticks by a string attached to the sternum or breast bone apparently Finches, Chichadees, pipits. Other birds are thus treated. Peabingers dogs are also seen here & treated as lap dogs being carried about in the areas as in America. Those I have seen are reddish haired & larger than our breeds. These same Chinese women who pet dogs smoke cigarettes, inhaling the smoke & exhaling it thru the nostrils. Chow dogs are common on the street but are strays & without definite owners. 22 We visited picnics against the Burnsteads, purchased a fine gray acquired strain coat for 70.00 & a Maroon coat for [illegible]